Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
OP informs us that this is happening by sharing the link. As a free human being, it’s up to you to decide how to act on this. Some would purge Chrome, others would not care.
Thank you for providing an actual solution, instead of parroting Linux like so many others.
OP informs us that this is happening by sharing the link. As a free human being, it’s up to you to decide how to act on this. Some would purge Chrome, others would not care.
why would anyone parrot Linux if this will also apply to Google Chrome on Linux?